Dude, with complex scenes, Poser chokes. Put the same complex scene in Max, no problemo. 2X faster or better. Especially with big texture maps. In Poser, those will kill ya. For testing, & many high rez images, turn Antialiasing off for a big speed increase-up to 5X. If you have Max, for viewport quad view, if you have a geforce3 & DX8, your get superb realtime quality. great when building /testing scenes. Thats where you spend most of your time. The high quality viewport is a godsend in Max. A technique pro use, is to layer your animated elements separately. The composite them or paste to the backdrop. If you're serious about animation, you need a better renderer. Also, tweaking choreography in Poser- you'' spend 80% of your time fixing quirks that shouldn't have happened. Wayward extrapolations, twirling wrist or mysterious jumps in a linb. I decided to spend $450 on Lifeforms cause I was never getting anything finished. Good luck